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Continue reading →: Extradition 2025: The Supreme Court’s ‘Do Not Disturb’ Sign for the ICC, ‘Open Season’ for Cult LeadersFor Go & Dela Rosa: The Court Built a Moat. For Quiboloy: The Court Built a Catapult — Straight to America By Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo — October 30, 2025 1. The “Perfectly Timed” Panic Button: Coincidence or ICC-Proof Bunker? MGA ka-kweba ng legal coliseum, gather ’round. The Supreme Court has…
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Continue reading →: The Typhon Gambit: Arming for Survival or Igniting Ruin?Brawner’s Stand, Duterte’s Warning: The Fight for Philippine Sovereignty By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo+- October 29, 2025 THE Philippines teeters on a razor’s edge, caught in a storm of great power rivalry. A single question looms over the West Philippine Sea: Is the nation fortifying its defenses to secure its…
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Continue reading →: When Power Meets Mortality: The Meaning of Remulla’s RevelationHis battle with illness is more than a personal story — it’s a test of whether vulnerability can give birth to moral strength in Philippine public life. By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — October 28, 2015 WHEN Ombudsman Jesus Crispin Remulla revealed that he had battled leukemia following a quintuple…
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Continue reading →: Drilon’s Senatorial Shield: Congress’s All-You-Can-Eat Impunity BuffetHow the Senate Feasts on RA 6770’s Loophole Smorgasbord By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — October 27, 2025 IN THE grand theater of Philippine politics, where accountability is a punchline and power is the script, former Senate President Franklin Drilon has delivered a performance worthy of a standing ovation from…
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Continue reading →: The Great SALN Cover-Up: Bersamin’s Ode to Elite ImpunityCloaking Corruption in Constitutional Garb By Louis ‘Barok’ C Biraogo — October 27, 2025 The Great Transparency Heist: Bersamin’s Betrayal of the Constitution KUPS, the gall of Lucas Bersamin, former Supreme Court Chief Justice turned Executive Secretary, peddling secrecy like a carnival barker selling snake oil. This self-styled guardian of…
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Continue reading →: Remulla vs. the Ghost: Martires’ Hidden Absolution of Villanueva UnearthedA Bureaucratic Séance Summons a Six-Year Secret By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — October 26, 2025 I. A Verdict That Skulked Out of the Crypt Back in 2016, Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales, the iron lady of accountability, swung a legal sledgehammer, smashing Senator Joel Villanueva’s career for his alleged pork…
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Continue reading →: Martires’s Midnight Misfits: How the Ombudsman’s Farewell Party Became Remulla’s Cleanup NightmareA Crony Carnival Before the Exit: Martires’s Last-Minute Hiring Spree By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — October 25, 2025 BRACE for impact, scandal fans! The Office of the Ombudsman is dishing out a controversy so spicy it could set your screen ablaze. The plot thickens as incoming Ombudsman Jesus Crispin…
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Continue reading →: Rice Too Dear, Thieves Too NearFloods, Fraud, and Filipino Hunger Louis ‘Barok’ C Biraogo — October 24, 2025 A Tale of Two Betrayals: Hunger vs. Honesty Meet Aling Maria, a Tondo mother of three, staring down a sack of rice priced like a month’s rent in last week’s palengke. Her kids will go hungry—not just…
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Continue reading →: Marcoleta’s Big Fish Hunt Meets Andres’ Net of NuanceSenator’s Splashy Crusade Collides with DOJ’s Steady Trawl By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — October 24, 2925 DOJ’s Drama Derby: Bold Claims vs. Quiet Facts Picture Manila’s political stage aglow: former Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla steps forward, announcing with gusto that the Anti-Money Laundering Council has reeled in “big…
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Continue reading →: Marcoleta’s Tantrum Meets Andres’ Checkmate: Restitution as the WPP’s Anti-Corruption AceDiscayas’ Heart Signs vs. Andres’ Hard Line: No Loot, No Sanctuary By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — October 23, 2025 WELCOME to the latest episode of As the Senate Turns, where budget hearings for the Department of Justice (DOJ) morph into a circus of self-righteous posturing and legal hair-splitting. This…






